TikTok video 3,216 just entered my eyeballs, spent a little time inside my brain, and went god-knows-where from there.
I’m ready for the next one.
But my sister calls me, the nagging bitch.
“Saera, pick up your phone. Lucky’s waiting for you outside.”
Family visit.
Dying cousin.
Yikes.
“Just send him to your place first, I’m not ready.”
I look around my living room.
Takeout from the last few nights litter my floor and there sits a rotten black banana peel on a paper towel in the middle of my coffee table.
Definitely not ready.
But Jalisa’s not having it.
“Nuh uh, not this time Saera. I’ve got my own shit going on today, you deal with…”
BEEEEEEEEEP.
Fuck, terrible timing.
“No wayyyyy, you still haven’t put new batteries in that thing? It’s been weeks. It’s pathetic.”
I hang up and throw my phone down, and slap myself a few times to wake up.
She really knows how to make a girl feel good.
I get up and put together an outfit by sniffing each piece I find on my floor and wearing what ever doesn’t make me gag.
I just wanna go back to bed.
But it’s family.
Short Story